Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-09-05 | Page 7 | Desolation behind Russian Withdrawal

DESOlATION BEHIND RUSSIAN WITHDRAWAl NAL Letter From Austrian Officer Tells of Destruction by Retreating Retreating Retreating Re Re- treating Cossacks Geneva a Switzerland Sept 1 1 via Paris Sept Sopt 4 4 delayed In lit sion Tho Tho Gazette tto publishes a letter from an Austrian officer tight fight lag InS on the eastern front fr nt In n which ho hosa sa saga s The retreat Is a of ot terrifying sl systematic t matic devastation de which r recalls calls tho thu hu retreat of ot 1812 Thero h Is an nn immense sea of or flame between tho retiring retla-Ing- Russian armies caused ct by burning houses and amps amps' crops General J Is followed b by y well organ of or Cossacks whoso duty It t Is to burn everything behind the arm army They accomplish their task implacably Im im- When tho tried to enter Krylow In pursuit of ot tho Russians eer every every ev ev- e er ery street way was In n flames The They were unable to 10 papa pa u through tho the huge furnace fur tur naco nace and lost many precious hours In Ingoing Ingoing ingoing going going- around the leown town by Indirect roads and anti acrO across 8 fields hen U tho the Austro Hungarians ar arrived arrived nr- nr rived at Vladimir Vladimir 1 rl they found the town burning and the tho town lown o 0 of Verba also so Was z bl bining er E Every ill JI Inh o on t HII he Vol plain as far Car as ns was In flames The Hun Austro n garlan troops had hull no shelter for days Tho roa roads s are aN Ind Indescribably cut up up and obstructed Convoys Cnn arrived d a n day and a half halt late It Ii would l tako talco leo fifty soldiers to draw ono one cart out of ot a mud hole Thou Thousands of or men mon worked u upon on re ro- ro pairs on tho the railway from Sokol to toI I and nd If It tho the road had bad hadnot hadnot not been repaired In time we wo would havo o met with disaster